Wake County 4-H Youth Livestock

Livestock Skillathon Team

Wake County 4-H has a Livestock Skillathon Team that will be active in 2012! Meetings will be held on Thursday evenings at the Extension Office (4001 Carya Drive, Raleigh) from 5:30–7 p.m. Please note that meeting location is subject to change, and participants will be given monthly schedules for practice locations. Email heather.tart@wakegov.com or laura.martin@wakegov.com for more information or to sign up to participate.

Livestock Skillathon participants need to be between the ages of 9 and 18 as of January 1, 2012, to be eligible for competition. Eight-year-olds may attend practices and field trips but are not elligible to compete, in accordance with NC 4-H competition rules.

4-H Clubs

Some of our Wake County 4-H clubs involve youth working with livestock. Please email heather.tart@wakegov.com for more information on our clubs.

Poultry Science

NCSU Poultry Science Institute

NCSU hosts a Poultry Science Institute each summer and, for 2012, the dates are July 29 through August 2. Applications are due by May 2, 2012. See more information. 

Youth Market Turkey Show

Registration for the Youth Market Turkey Show will open March 31, 2012. This is a statewide competition in which youth register to receive a turkey poult in early summer (provided free of charge) and then raise the turkey over the summer and into the fall. Turkeys are then entered into a competition at the NC State Fair in October and are judged on weight, muscling and care taken of the bird while in the youth's care. Turkeys are then returned to NCSU after the competition. Though there is no cost to the participant for the turkey poult, participants are responsible for the pickup and dropoff of their bird, as well as for the cost of feed, housing and upkeep while the bird is in the participant's care.

View more information and register.

NC 4-H Youth Livestock

See more information on statewide 4-H youth livestock programming.